Rickets – aka the child health crisis

I created a new category for this, basically a WTF category.
Apparently rickets is back.  Rickets sounds vaguely familiar, like some sort of British tea spoon or a dance your great-grandma would do, but no.  It’s not a fashion thing either, as in “rickets, it’s this spring’s hottest muumuu.”  Nope.  It’s a frigging disease.  Rickets!  R-i-c-k-e-t-s.
Rickets [...]

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Writing Tips

Here’s a good site with tips for writing (aka blogging): http://betterexplained.com/articles/build-a-site-you-and-your-readers-will-love/
While I agree with his quality over quantity principle, I think that it is good practice to force yourself to write sometimes.  If you have lots of ideas (whatever the point of your site is) then forcing yourself to write every day or every week [...]

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Motivation

I didn’t know it but apparently the month of November included these events: http://www.nanowrimo.org/ and http://nablopomo.ning.com/
Of course, November isn’t over yet, but I wish I had heard about these earlier.  I have another site (“blog”) which I update M-F, so adding 2 weekend posts would not have been too much of a stretch.  And I keep [...]

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Holiday special

There’s another Columbus writer (I don’t like the word blogger) that I read from time to time, she does excellent restaurant reviews and food related things.  She is (dramatic pause) the Restaurant Widow.  Check out her site if you haven’t already.  http://www.restaurantwidow.com/
Typically Thanksgiving kicks off the “holiday season” where we focus on friends and family [...]

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Giving thanks

I have a lot to be thankful for… but I don’t like getting too personal on this site.  So instead here’s a favorite quote of mine, from an old horoscope (don’t know the date):
I advise you not to wait around to find out if you’re a chosen one.  Choose yourself.
In the same vein, I suggest [...]

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The Name Game

I get a kick out of people who ask me about my name.  I’ve lived with these types of people all my life, but they still either amuse me or annoy me, depending on what kind of a day I’m having.
Same goes for wanting to ask me what my ethnicity/heritage is… typically awesome exchange…
They: “Sooo…. [...]

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Crowd funding

I love love love the idea of raising money in this fashion.  If you have 100 super rich dudes, and they each donate $10,000 (chump change for them but impossible for you and I) you get a total of $1,000,000.  But you could also raise $1 M by getting 50,000 people to each donate $20.  [...]

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Greyhound doesn’t suck!

Recently took Greyhound and was pleasantly surprised to find out that it didn’t suck!  My trip was roundtrip from Columbus to Detroit, and I’m giving it a thumbs up.
This was my first Greyhound trip out of Columbus, and I really only had a few complaints.  (Please note I have no affiliation to Greyhound, so it’s [...]

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Support your local business

You don’t have to be a hippie to support local business.  In fact, it makes good economic sense.  A series of studies have shown that buying from a local business keeps more money in your area. 
The research firm Civic Economics found that in Austin, spending $100 at Borders would circulate $13 into the Austin economy.  Spending [...]

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Too little, too late

This article (http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2007/11/17/small_car_sweepstakes.ART_ART_11-17-07_C16_R28GC79.html?sid=101) talks about how the “American” auto industry is going to focus on smaller cars.  The article is mostly about Ford, and there is some mention of GM.
They made their bed, now sleep in it!  Seriously, they were chasing the big profit in trucks and SUV’s because they couldn’t figure out how to [...]

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